Posts tagged "horror movies"

When I woke up this morning and turned on the Twitter, I immediately noticed that one of the things trending was "Unfriended." "HUH." Says I. Perhaps a lot of people are feeling unpopular right now? Being curious, I clicked on it, and it turns out that "Unfriended" is a movie produced by MTV that'…

So it turns out Siskel and Ebert were cool as fuck: In this 1980 episode, they address the rash of exploitation horror movies released in the very late 70s and early 80s - and continued through the 80s -- that used violence against women as the foundation for the film. I love the horror…

On some level, we know that "Saw" is happening on a dilapidated soundstage instead of in a dilapidated bathroom, but we pretend not to so that it stays a scary movie instead of devolving into a meditation on how unkind the years have been to Cary Elwes. But sometimes seeing where these horror movies were…

Let's be real: horror movie boyfriends are kind of dumb. From wanting to have sex in the woods, to their leaving the basement door unlocked, to not keeping bullets in their gun, it's almost as if these chuckleheads don't realize they're in a horror movie! I mean, come on, guys. Since, in any horror flick,…

Say you're an offbeat couple who wants to make sure your engagement photos have a unique twist. You could wear funny hats, or you could document, in graphic detail, getting brutally murdered by Jason from "Friday the 13th." This Toronto couple went with the latter. Their engagement photos begin innocently enough, with the couple frolicking…

I've written before about how much I appreciate people who go balls out on Halloween, and I even put together a slideshow of scary Halloween decoration ideas that included a doll in a blood-filled bathtub, but even so, something about these "decorative" fake dead bodies a man set up in hi…

Even the best horror movie storylines hinge on the main characters making very, very poor decisions. From exploring an abandoned mental institution to spending the weekend at a serial killer's cabin to pushing play on a cursed videotape to taking every opportunity to split up and explore dark corners alone, horror movie characters are alway…

Halloween is not a holiday known for love, but stay with us for a sec. The canon of horror movies is rife with potentially dateable and definitely single men, who could all just use some love, or at least a nice dinner out. If online dating and the daily drudge of searching for available and…

Even though this video is very clearly a prank video to promote the "Carrie" remake, and even though the first 30 seconds shows you exactly how the prank was set up, I still found myself covering my eyes and pausing it multiple times to collect myself. It's THAT scary. I'm guessing the makers of thi…

We've survived the "Sharknado" and the "Birdemic" -- but are we prepared for the newest killer animal on the block? Check out "Squirrels," a horror movie about -- you guessed it -- killer squirrels. It's currently in pre-production and still in the fundraising…

I never much liked horror movies until I took a class in college called Gender and Sexuality in Horror Films (I was a Women's Studies major, so it didn't seem that weird at the time). We started with "Psycho" and "Peeping Tom" and worked our way up through the "Scream" franchise. Now I loooooove horror…

According to prominent horror critics, the things that scare us as a culture usually have a lot to do with whatever we repress and suppress. Horror is about the thin boundary between the outside and the inside being broken -- both literally, as in the piercing of skin, and metaphorically, as in the destruction of…

I never watch horror movies because I am a total scaredy-cat and it doesn't take much to give me serious nightmares (I slept in my brother's room for six months after seeing "Scream" in middle school). But over the years I've found that even if you avoid the horror genre altogether, there are plenty of…

Do you like the thrill of the open water? Enjoy the luxuries of cruising on the open seas? Love living in fear for your life? Then perhaps the Carnival Cruise Lines "Saw" cruise is for you? Yes, after the spate of music-themed cruises (Weezer cruise, anyone?), the marketing geniuses over at Carnival have come u…

In the latest issue of Elle, "Glee" and "American Horror Story" creator Ryan Murphy cast the stars of his series' as characters from his favorite thrillers. Connie Britton, Kate Mara and others jump off the page in classic scenes from "The Birds," "Carrie" and others. Here, "Glee"'s Diana Agron does her best Raquel Welch i…

What is coming to get you? I'm personally far more afraid of being abducted by aliens than I am of the Blair Witch, because duh, I hate camping and never intend to go. Maybe I would fit in better with the people of Montana. How about you? What is your most feared horror movie scenario?

It's a scary world out there for us ladies sometimes. That's why I love a good horror movie for contained fear and excitement. There's nothing like sitting down in the darkened theater for two hours of sensory overload and raw adrenaline, only to leave when it's all done in one piece. It's like paying…

A couple weeks ago, my brother and his girlfriend convinced me to watch "The Shining" with them. I was hesitant because I hate scary movies (I still have nightmares about the 15 minutes of "Scream" I watched accidentally in 1996), but they insisted it was a classic and I needed to see it in order…

Presented without comment, "The Life Zone," a pro-life horror film about "pregnant women kidnapped from abortion clinics and forced to give birth," starring Robert Loggia. New Jerseyites can check it out currently at the Hoboken International Film Festival. The rest of us will have to wait until it's picked up by Fox…

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Taking a page out of those girls you went to high school with who can't stop smugly posting every detail of their perfect lives on Facebook, Lady Gaga shaded America's youngest grandma Taylor Swift just perfectly on Twitter yesterday. It all started when Jaime King's unborn child's godmother tweeted about Gaga, using the preferred…

Oh look, it's hottest DILF alive, Ryan Gosling, making a rare appearance in public grabbing lunch in LA today. And what's that I see? In addition to his perfectly worn T-shirt (that collar is stretched just so), hoodie and leather jacket, the Gos is rocking a few faint letters on his knuckles, spelling out the…